Synonyms for thresh
| Grammar : Verb |
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| Phonetic Transcription : θrɛʃ |
Top 10 synonyms for thresh Other synonyms for the word thresh
- beat up
- box
- break
- bruise
- buffet
- bury
- cane
- castigate
- chasten
- chastise
- clobber
- clout
- club
- collide
- crush
- cudgel
- defeat
- drub
- flagellate
- flail
- flog
- hammer
- hit
- jerk
- kill
- knock
- lambaste
- lash
- lick
- maltreat
- mash
- maul
- murder
- overwhelm
- paste
- pelt
- pitch
- pound
- pummel
- punch
- punish
- rain blows on
- ram
- rap
- rout
- rush
- scourge
- seesaw
- slap
- slaughter
- slug
- smack
- smash
- spank
- stir
- strike
- surge
- swat
- tan
- tan one's hide
- thrash
- thump
- thwack
- toss
- toss and turn
- trash
- trim
- trounce
- wallop
- wax
- whale
- whip
- work over
- writhe
Définition of thresh
Origin :- Old English þrescan, þerscan "to beat, sift grain by trampling or beating," from Proto-Germanic *threskanan "to thresh," originally "to tread, to stamp noisily" (cf. Middle Dutch derschen, Dutch dorschen, Old High German dreskan, German dreschen, Old Norse þreskja, Gothic þriskan), from PIE root *tere- "to rub, turn" (see throw).
- The basic notion is of treading out wheat under foot of men or oxen, later, with the advent of the flail, the word acquired its modern extended sense of "to knock, beat, strike." The original Germanic sense is suggested by the use of the word in Romanic languages that borrowed it, e.g. Italian trescare "to prance," Old French treschier "to dance," Spanish triscar "to stamp the feet."
- verb beat
- verb thrash
- But fortunately he came up on the surface to thresh about some more.
- Extract from : « Tales of Fishes » by Zane Grey
- The Moujik began to thresh: from every sheaf he got a peck of grain.
- Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston
- All his optimism failed to thresh a grain of hope from the chaff of his postulations.
- Extract from : « Cabbages and Kings » by O. Henry
- He fell with a great roar, and began to thresh about in the bushes.
- Extract from : « The Young Alaskans on the Trail » by Emerson Hough
- Be sensible; stack what you can, but don't wait to thresh or grind.
- Extract from : « The Reckoning » by Robert W. Chambers
- He has sown, but he has also to reap; and if reaping is done, he has to thresh and to winnow.
- Extract from : « Talks To Farmers » by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- His wheel is not to grind, but to thresh; the horses' feet are not to break, but to separate.
- Extract from : « Talks To Farmers » by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The two of you will have to thresh it out between yourselves.
- Extract from : « When Egypt Went Broke » by Holman Day
- Overhead could be distinctly heard the thresh of the vessel's propellers.
- Extract from : « A Sub and a Submarine » by Percy F. Westerman
- Some of them thresh, clean, and sack the wheat as fast as it is cut and bound.
- Extract from : « The Romance of Modern Mechanism » by Archibald Williams
Antonyms for thresh
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